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The same as you would a 2ohm speaker. It's always OK to connect an amp to a speaker with more ohms than it's rated for but not less. Depending on the type of class of the amp the power produced at the speaker will probably be lower than rated spec but that won't harm the amp or the speaker. Turning it up until your ears bleed will. Something important is added: The amplifier will have an output impedance of around 0.04 ohms. In hi-fi we have always impedance bridging. Zout << Zin. The damping factor Df = Zin / Zout tells you what Zout is. Zout = Zin/Df. If the damping factor Df = 200 and the loudspeaker impedance is Zin = 4 ohms, the output impedance of the amplifier is Zout = 4 / 200 = 0.02 ohms. You see, there is no "2 ohm amplifier" with a 2 ohm output. Scroll down to related links and look at "Voltage Bridging - Zout < Zin".
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Can you hook up a 4ohms sub and a 2ohms sub to the same amplifier?
ONLY if your amp can pull a 2 ohm load! Which is vary few but your more expensive amp can pull 1/2 ohm load
Set up 2 4 ohm sub to 2 ohm?
If you are trying to pump a 2.4 ohm sub with a 2 ohm rated amplifier you should be fine. The rating on the amplifier is the least resistance it should have on its load. Anything less than 2 ohms would fry your amp.
What will happen if a hook up an 8 ohm sub to a 4 ohm amp?
The sound quality won't be very good
What happens when you have a 4 ohm and a 2 ohm sub hooked up to an amplifier?
Yes, you can wire a 6 ohm sub with a 4 ohm sub to the same amplifier, but you need to verify that the amplifier can handle the resulting impedance of 2.4 ohms - many cannot, and could be destroyed. Also, realize that the power in the 4 ohm sub will be greater than the power in the 6 ohm sub.
What will happen if you hook up a 2-Ohm Car Subwoofer to an 8-Ohm Home Receiver I have a Kicker Comp 12 2-Ohm Subwoofer so I was wondering if I could hook it up to my 8-Ohm Home Receiver HELP?
If your home receiver is not rated for a 2-ohm load (many can handle a 4-ohm, but not a 2-ohm), you will damage components inside the amplifier by over-current. Don't use car stereo components in home stereo equipment. It's like using a hockey helmet to ride a motorcycle.
Can you hook up 2 8 ohm speakers to a 2 ohm amp?
Sorry, but there is no 2 ohm amplifier on the market, when you mean the output impedance. The impedance is always 0.5 ohms or less. We don't use impedance matching, we use voltage bridging. Scroll down to related links and look at "Interconnection of two audio units - power amplifier and passive loudspeaker".
How do you hook up Behringer mixer to Amplifier?
You connect the mixers main outputs to the inputs of the amplifier and the outputs of the amplifier to speakers
How do you insall a amplifier?
hook a ground up to your battery and mount it to the amp and hook it up with a few more things and yea you got it man
How would you hook up 2 8 ohm woofers with a 4 ohm dual voice coil woofer?
You could with a 4 channel amp. Bridge it to two channels and hook up the two 8 ohm woofers in parallel on the one bridged channel. Then hook the two coils on the dual coil woofer in series with the other bridged channel on the amp.
Is it ok to hook a 16 ohm Speaker up to a 8 ohm amp?
A1: The output impedance of a power amplifier is always less than 0.1 ohms. There are no 8 ohm amplifiers on the market! A2: I actually just bought a new car radio/CD player that specifically shows 4 ohm speakers on the sticker. It is designed to work optimally with 4 ohm speakers. If you use 8 ohm instead, it will work, but you will not get the full power output that is specified. The amp can only kick out so much voltage and so much amperage - if it is designed for 4 ohm speakers, and 200 watts (stereo, so 100 watts per speaker), it can supply 20 volts (P = V^2 / R). If you used 8 ohm speakers to this amplifier, each speaker would only get 50 watts powered at full output voltage. Alternatively, if it is designed for 8 ohm speakers and 100 watts per speaker, it can provide 40 volts. If you used 4 ohm speakers instead, each speaker could be given 200 watts at 40 volts, resulting in severe overheating and damage to the amplifier. This applies to your case as well: it is OK to hook up higher impedance speakers to a lower impedance amplifier, but you will get less power delivered. If you do the opposite (lower impedance speakers to higher impedance amplifier), keep the volume low or you could burn out the amp.
What is 4 chanel amplifier means?
it means you can only hook up 4 speakers
Does a CD have to have more power from the amp to make the sub work?
Ok so u do have a cd player yes ur cd player needs to hook up an amplifier to play ur sub woofers the cd it self doesn't have enough power to play the subs
